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LIVE: Multi-party Leaders’ Debate on 1 News

LIVE: Multi-party Leaders’ Debate on 1 News

The country’s minor parties will face off in TVNZ’s multi-party debate at 7 pm tonight on channel one. The multi-party debate will be streamed LIVE on TVNZ1 and the 1 NEWS website, as well as the 1 NEWS Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, from 7 pm.

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Treaty Partnership to Be Enforced by a Labour/Green Coalition

Treaty Partnership to Be Enforced by a Labour/Green Coalition

Information Satire A document leaked to The Woke Examiner lays out a combined Labour’/Green plan to fully implement The Treaty partnership as laid out by Justice Robin Cooke in 1987. Treaty Minister Andrew Little intends to fully implement the principles of The Treaty. The BFD. Photoshopped image credit HangonaMin

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A Deplorable Debate

A Deplorable Debate

On Tuesday night Christchurch suffered another earthquake. It was a significant one. On the Richter scale, it probably would have registered a ten. This was not an earthquake of the type that damages buildings and roads. This was an earthquake of the type that shatters democracy, the ability to speak

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Denise Lee Shows Why She Shouldn’t Be in Parliament

Denise Lee Shows Why She Shouldn’t Be in Parliament

At a time when the country needs strong definitive leadership, and less than two weeks before a general election resting on a knife-edge, Denise Lee stirred up trouble by emailing a select bunch of colleagues criticism of their leader. Cam Slater says Lee is easily led. “It was mind-

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Daily News Roundup – 8 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 8 October 2020

National Thomas Manch (Stuff): A terrible day on the campaign trail for Judith Collins RNZ: Party leaders reject accusations of planted supporters 1News: National’s staged walkabout in Auckland ‘cheeky and clumsy’ says 1 News political reporter Ben McKay (AAP): Judith Collins faces indignity of National losing jellybean election poll

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So Much for Jacinda’s Travel Bubble

So Much for Jacinda’s Travel Bubble

Jacinda Ardern dangled the prospect of an Australia-NZ travel bubble “before Christmas” as an apparent pre-election carrot. But two Australian states have gazumped her by already offering quarantine-free travel however Ardern seems rather less-than-eager to reciprocate. As a result – and no doubt also due to

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Judith Has Faith. I Have Faith in Judith

Judith Has Faith. I Have Faith in Judith

Since the photo of Judith Collins praying in a church was published there have been many points of view expressed as to the rights and wrongs and possible motives or otherwise. I must admit to feeling a little uncomfortable when I first saw it. I was unsure why to start

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Daily News Roundup – 7 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 7 October 2020

The Press Leaders Debate Jane Patterson (RNZ): Third leaders’ debate: Ardern and Collins steelier and more combative Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern seemed to finally crack it in raucous The Press Leaders Debate Audrey Young , Simon Wilson , Claire Trevett and Fran O’Sullivan (Herald): The Verdict – Who won the third

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Good Question, What Was Denise Lee Thinking?

Audrey Young writes about Denise Lee’s brain-fart, which she has now walked back. What was she thinking? Denise Lee that is, not Judith Collins. Lee, the National MP for Maungakiekie, may have been entitled to feel annoyed at being left out of the loop over a policy announcement

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Out of the three debates so far the so-called moderators of last night’s debate were by far the worst. The woman, in particular, was appalling. Tonight’s debate defies description. Those people at Stuff should hang their heads in shame. If that’s an example of journalism in

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